Re: [PATCH] get-location-segments.py would work on self-signed ssl servers too

Prabhu Gnana Sundar wrote on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 21:55:28 +0530:
> On Thursday 18 August 2011 06:46 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >I tried your patch against https://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/README
> >(which uses a non-self-signed cert, but rather one for which the cert's
> >hostname differs from the URI's hostname), and it didn't seem to work:
> >
> > ..
> >What am I missing?
> I did not consider this scenario while giving this patch... And this
> patch does not intend to solve this issue.

I'm not sure /why/ the patch doesn't handle this (technically), but
I expect handling all failure bits (rather than just the "self signed"
bit) to be a low-hanging fruit that could easily (and should) be
integrated into the patch.
Received on 2011-08-18 18:38:18 CEST